What Owen Jones Almost Gets Right, I Mean Left
5 min readJan 5, 2020
Owen Jones is a brilliant columnist for The Guardian. His writing is always worth a read. His most recent piece, “To move on, Labour must learn lessons from the left’s failure worldwide,” is up to his usual standards but curiously leaves out the obvious conclusion to which his argument clearly leads.
Jones adroitly lays out the worldwide left’s trend of failure. Left-wing parties…